By Mustapha Aleem
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has distanced himself from reports claiming that he ordered the National Coordinator of the Oodua People’s Congress, Chief Gani Adams, to resign his current post.
In a statement released by the Director of Media and Public Affairs of Ooni’s Palace, Comrade Moses Olafare, the Ooni of Ife never ordered the resignation of the OPC leader at any point in time, saying Ooni only saw Gani Adams as a loyal son.
The statement read in part, “Gani Adams is an unapologetic loyalist of Ooni’risa. The veteran Yoruba Self-determinationist, Adams has invested so much of resources into the socio-cultural emancipation of Oodua race and can only be treated with a deserved reciprocation of love and respect as a patriotic Oodua who has never hesitated to demonstrate love and respect to the sacred throne of Oduduwa.
“Baba Ooni never at anytime claimed to have ordered Otunba Gani Adams to resign as the Leader of the OPC. He sees him as an unapologetic loyalist son who has always treated him as his father with love and absolute respect.
“Otunba Adams is a great Oodua patriot and veteran Oodua Self-determinationist who has invested so much the socio-cultural emancipation of the Oodua race. That is why we have always welcomed him as a member of the inner chamber of the Ooni’s Palace”
Moses added that Ooni had admonished the factional group of OPC when they the monarch palace to ensure a common ground within the Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, emphasizing the need for them to work together as a family.
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